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LRCEritrea’s Nguse Amlosom (Tesfaldet) Wins Eritrea’s First-Ever Medal (And Gold) At African Champs In Men’s 10,000 Morocco’s Mustapha El Aziz was 2nd and CG silver medalist Josphat Bett was third as Moses Kipsiro was a DNS.

• Athletics Kenya Screws Up Again?Kenyans Struggle On Opening Day After Disastrous 32-Hour Travel Time From Glasgow And to top it all off, some had to compete in the wrong uniforms. “I have run disappointingly slow times that I didn’t imagine I could run in a continental event.”
• Mercy Cherono And Genzebe Dibaba Set For Clash In Women’s 5,000

• CG 10,000 Champ Moses Kipsiro Wants To Switch To Marathon Soon He says he’d already have done it but his agent Ricky Simms insisted he stick to the track.
• Nigeria Expects To Dominate Sprints And Medal Count At African Champs
• South African Jav Thrower Sunette Viljoen Wants 4th African Title, Then Will Compete In Continental Cup
• Many Of Kenya’s Commonwealth Games Starts Will Be Favorites At African Champs, Which Start Sunday Rudisha, however, isn’t competing.

Europeans Start Tuesday *Schedule/Results *Watch Live On 9 Feeds

• The Recently-Engaged Chris O’Hare Is Ready For Europeans: “None of the guys who beat me in Glasgow are going to be at the Europeans.”
• Ireland’s 21-Year-Old 800 Ace Mark English Is Ready: “I know I’m in the best shape of my life.” 1:44.84 man English is still coachless (LRC will coach him for free) and enjoying still being a student.
• European Athletics Preview of Long Distance Events No one in Europe has broken 13:10 this year.
• Mo Farah Is In A League Of His Own
• Good Profile Of Irish 400 Hurdler Thomas Barr He and his sister Jessie have both won multiple Irish titles.
• James Dasaoulo: “Our 4 x 100 relay team can break the British record.” We’d hope so as it includes 3 of the 5 Brits who have ever broken 10.00.

• New Generation Of British Sprinters Set To Come Of Age At Euros World Junior 100 champ Dina Asher-Smith leads the way.
• Goldie Sayers Delighted At Being Named UK Captain
• LJ Olympic Champ Greg Rutherford Wants European Gold, Then Winter Olympic Gold In 2018 In Bob Skeleton
• Preview Of The Jumps At Europeans
• Bohdan Bondarenko Has The World Record In Sight

A Real Running Hero

LRCA Real Running Hero: The Flo Groberg StoryTwo years ago, former Maryland track and field and cross-country runner Flo Groberg helped thwart a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. This is his story.

Random

• The Fastest NY 800 HSer Ever – Jeff Van Wie – Is The Writer Of New Movie – “4 Minute Mile”Van Wie ran 1:48.56 in 1983. *MB: “4 Minute Mile” – Have any of you seen this new movie yet?
• Competitor.com: Is the Paleo Diet Good For Runners?
• Jamaica’s World Junior Team Captain Jonielle Smith (11.32 100, 22.36 200) Is Going To Auburn

Track And Field History 101

• Good Read: Catching Up With The British 4 X 100 Team That Shocked The World (And US) By Winning 4 X 100 Gold 10 Years Ago 4 guys, none of whom made individual finals, somehow won gold. Amazing.
• History Lesson: 60 Years Ago: Roger Bannister Defeated John Landy In Miracle Mile
  
• Exclusive Interview: Sir Roger Bannister On The Miracle Mile A great read. Bannister, who now has Parkinson’s, talks in great depth about his career. Find out more about him in a new autobiography that just came out:Twin Tracks.
• Canadian Runners, Including One Who Was In Race Inspired By Miracle Mile
• Q&A With Joan Benoit Samuelson, 30 Years After Her Historic Olympic Marathon Gold In LAA good read for sure on the woman who had knee surgery 17 days before the Olympic Trials.
• Adios, Irving! Irving Saladino Announces His Retirement The 31-year-old was the 2007 and 2008 gold medalist and is the only Panamanian to win Olympic gold in any sport.